93 (World Literature Library)

Author: Victor Hugo
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: In the autumn of 1862, Victor Hugo went into exile on the island of Guernsey and began taking notes for a novel that was taking shape; ten years later, he started writing it in the winter of 1872 and published it in February 1874, which is the famous novel "Les Misérables." The novel is set in the Vendean rebellion in the Loire-Atlantique region of France in 1793, telling the story of a Republican army fighting against the rebels. It vividly portrays the thrilling class struggle of French soldiers in the face of storms and thunder, passionately praises the fearless sacrifice of the Republican soldiers, and condemns the restoration ambitions of foreign interveners and reactionary nobles.